European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 9, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 How to raise the titanic use vaseline London up the titanic was  Only last we but already there have been a spate of schemes proposed to raise it including using ice or vaseline to re float the giant liner. In one m hemp the sunday Mirror newspaper re part Tunc a it Iii inc Unaa reported a British underwater Salvage expert is proposing raising the liner from its resting place 2 Miles below the surface of the North Atlantic with 180,000 tuns of vaseline. The sunday Mirror said Tony Wake Field a Salvage Engineer with a company in Stamford. England. Pro posed pumping the vaseline into polyester bags placed in the Hulk. As the incline hardens he said the vessel would become buoyant and Rise toward the surface. Under the plan the liner would be towed into a port while it remained at a depth of 200 feet to prevent corrosion the Mirror said. And the sunday times giving a rundown on what it called Jules Verne schemes to raise the ship said another proposal would use liquid nitrogen to freeze the titanic into a giant iceberg to float it to the surface. The 46,000-Lon titanic located last monday about 375 Miles South of Newfoundland by a joint american French expedition rests at a depth of 13,000 feet and Many salvages have ruled out the practicality of raising it. But British Salvage John Pierce who helped recover artefacts three cars ago from the Lusitania in 340 feet of water off the Irish coast said a system of inflatable Hydrogen filled bags could raise the titanic which hit an iceberg and Sank 73 years ago. This operation will represent a big step Forward for the prestige of British science he said. "1 Don t intend to get egg on my  f in andr a maths or Oft i with the British Salvage association said any Salvage operation beyond a depth of 250 feet the operating threshold for divers is fraught with extreme technical  he  the deepest Salvage operation Ever attempted was a project sponsored by the Cia and the late Ameri can billionaire Howard Hughes to try to raise a soviet submarine containing secret codes from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974. A specially constructed ship tried to lift the 2,800-ton submarine the 16,600 feet from its resting place using a massive Winch but the sub broke up before reaching the surface. The team that discovered the location of the titanic is keeping its exact resting place a secret. They want to lobby the United nations for the ship to be preserved As a  memorial to the 1,503 people who died when the vessel hit an iceberg and Sank on its Maiden voyage on april 24, 1912. . Base gets Faasfe of soviet commando raid Northolt England a defense minister Michael desc Tinc watched a Soldier simulate a soviet com Mando attack on the control Tower at the Royal air Force base Here sunday in Britain s biggest military exercise since world War ii. The Sas commando flying a microlight aircraft dropped a Blue smoke cannister simulating a High explosive on the Tower to demonstrate one of the techniques that soviet special forces troops called pc Snaz might adopt in War. The attack at the North old Airfield on the outskirts of London was one of hundreds being simulated at 200 key Points throughout Britain to give 65,000 regular and re serve troops experience in defending the country against soviet commandos. Heseltine said the 12-Day exercise which ends Friday was essential As a demonstration to those who might threaten you and also to build up the morale of those who might defend  in the exercise code named Brave defender some 5,000 regular troops including crack Sas commandos Are posing As spets a. Forces trying to take the country s defense Force by Surprise. The defenders come from All branches of the armed forces the Terri uial army and its newly formed 5,000 member Home service Force whose Rote is to guard key installations. Some 1,000 United slates troops arc also taking part defending american bases in Britain. The spets a Are the main identified threat against our key Points in the United kingdom explained maj. Roly Grimshaw one of the umpires of the exercise. The pc Snaz operate either in nato uniforms or civilian cloth is. We expect that in an Early stage in the transition to War the pc Snaz would come across to this country and go for key installations. They might be nuclear installations government installations military bases he said. The spets a were first described in 1982 by a soviet defector now living in Britain under the pseudonym Viktor Suvo Rov. He told Western intelligence agents that a imitation soviet soldiers taking part � exercise Braw defender Are British soldiers who Are playing the of of members of the . Special forces. The two Are maintaining communications from a hidden base somewhere in  regular forces and reserves Are testing the defences of vital installations during the eight Day Man Euver which began Friday. 30,000-Itrong Force including foreign citizens had been formed to create havoc behind enemy lines during a build up to War. The observer newspaper said sunday that the defense ministry estimated the Force learning to speak English with various accents at 8,000 or 16,000. But the paper said this estimate has recently been downgraded to be tween 800 Ami 1,200. A defense ministry spokesman said no estimate of spets a. Forces that might operate against Britain has been released. But the spokesman said the 5,000 troops posing As Spe Snaz in the exercise is considerably greater than we would assess As the Likely threat from pc Snaz so that we can properly exercise All of the  John fit Gibbon a 39-year-old London plumber and part time member of the Home service Force was one of hundreds of troops helping to guard no thou sunday. We have to keep on our toes because you never know who is going to be infiltrated said the former paratrooper. Soviets seek to Swap spies paper reports Bonn a the soviet Union u seeking a spy Swap to secure the return of a soviet Trade Mission official sentenced to prison for trying to obtain restricted High technology a leading German newspaper reported saturday. Yevgeny m. Sem Iakov a 38-year-old Engineer attached to the soviet Trade mis Sion in Cologne was Given a three year prison sentence Friday for attempting to get electronic equipment whose Export to communist countries is banned. Presiding judge Klaus Wagner said sem Iakov was a top trained official of either the soviet Kab intelligence service or he military intelligence Agency. " daily newspaper die Welt quoting competent sources in Bonn the capital said soviet authorities had expressed inter est in securing sem Iakov in a Trade involving West German agents imprisoned in communist East Germany. The soviets were focusing on prisoners in Moscow Allied East Germany because no West German agents Are known to be in soviet prisons die Welt said. The possible spy Swap could encompass agents held in several countries the news paper said without further elaboration. German foreign ministry and Interior ministry officials could not be reached for comment on the weekend. The Bonn published die Welt is considered to have Good official sources on Security related matters. The last espionage related Exchange and one of the largest in postwar history was the june 11 Trade of four soviet bloc agents jailed in the United states for 25 people held in Poland and East Germany